Quotes
Quotes about Man
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
It is far easier to know men than to know man.
Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.
If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect..
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]
Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.
If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
